Windows 8 is beautiful and powerful, it is the latest release of the Windows operating system, produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers and portable devices, including home computers, business computers, laptops, tablet personal computers, and so on. Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor in 2009. Its existence was first announced at Consumer Electronics Show 2011, and followed by the release of three pre-release versions from September 2011 to May 2012. The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was released for general availability on October 26, 2012.

 

Nowadays, many users have used Windows 8 as their platform of working or playing. At the same time, we have to face a problem which is how to restore deleted files in Windows8. Here, we list some different ways to help you to restore deleted files in Windows 8.

 

If you are reading this article, you must have deleted some files which are important files for you, and then you want to resotre these deleted files. Maybe, you just deleted these important files from Windows Explorer, or you deleted these files by click 'shift + delete' key. So, is there a way to restore these deleted files? The answer is 'yes', if you just deleted these files from Windows Explorer, then these files will be thrown into the Windows Recycle Bin. At the time, these files are very safe, you can easily restore these deleted files from the Windows Recycle Bin by the following steps:

 

1) Double click he Recycle Bin icon on your desktop to open the Recycle Bin.

 

2) Look for deleted files which you want to restore and click them to highlight them.

 

3) Go to the File menu and choose the Restore option or right click over the file name and select Restore from the context-sensitive menu.

 

4) These files are now back on your computer in its original place. 

 

Ok, as above mentioned, you can easily restore deleted files from the Windows 8 Recycle Bin, but if you deleted files by click 'shift + delete' key or if you deleted files and then emptied the Recycle Bin, is there a way to restore these deleted files? The answer still is 'yes'. 

 

When files are deleted for your computer and emptied from the Recycle Bin, Windows does not delete them from your hard disk. It marks the storage space as empty for new data to be written and deletes the index entry that tells the location of those files. Unless, new files are written on that space, the deleted files are still recoverable. So you still have a chance to restore your deleted files, but Windows 8 does not offer a application to allow you to restore deleted files at this situation. So you need a data recovery software to help you to restore your deleted files.

 

Data Recovery Assist is an excellent data recovery software, when you have emptied the Recycle Bin, you can use it to restore deleted files in Windows 8. Data Recovery Assist is easy to use, what you need to do, just is click 'Next', 'Next' ...

 

Now you can freely download it from here or click the following button to recover deleted files on PC, even though these deleted files are not in the Recycle Bin.